Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights

Progress report | Doc. 14231 Addendum 3 | 25 January 2017

Committee

Bureau of the Assembly

1 Report of the Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights

The committee held a meeting in Strasbourg on 24 January 2017 with Mr Boriss Cilevičs (Latvia, SOC), in the Chair.

2 Introduction

The Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights assessed the list of the candidates to the Court in respect of Georgia. [(1) See Appendix 1 for the list of candidates submitted by the Government concerned. A full list and curriculum vitae of candidates can be found in Assembly document Doc. 14137 (Georgia).]

3 Conclusion of the Committee on the list of candidates submitted by Georgia

As not all candidates are sufficiently well-qualified, the committee recommends that the list be rejected by the Assembly and that the Government of Georgia be requested to submit a new list of candidates.

Appendix 1 – List of candidates submitted by the Government of Georgia [(2) See footnote 2, above.]

• Mr Giorgi BADASHVILI
• Mr Aleksandre BARAMIDZE
• Ms Eva GOTSIRIDZE

Appendix 2 – Members of the Committee who participated in the meeting [(3) Not all the members of the Committee participated in all the interviews / deliberations.]

Group of the European People's Party (EPP/CD)

• Mr Vladyslav GOLUB, Ukraine
• Ms Alina Ştefania GORGHIU, Romania
• Mr Konstantinos TZAVARAS, Greece
• Mr Sergiy VLASENKO, Ukraine, 1st Vice-Chairperson

Socialist Group (SOC)

• Lord Donald ANDERSON, United Kingdom, 1st Vice-Chairperson
• Ms Eka BESELIA, Georgia
• Mr Boriss CILEVIČS, Latvia, Chairperson
• Mr Titus CORLĂŢEAN, Romania
• Mr Pierre-Yves Le BORGN’, France
• Mr Evangelos VENIZELOS, Greece

Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE)

• Ms Anne BRASSEUR, Luxembourg
• Mr Jordi XUCLÀ, Spain

European Conservatives Group (EC)

• Mr Arkadiusz MULARCZYK, Poland

Ex Officio

• Ms Elena CENTEMERO, Italy, Chairperson of the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination
• Mr Alain DESTEXHE, Belgium, Chairperson of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights

Secretariat of the Parliamentary Assembly

• Mr Wojciech SAWICKI, Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly
• Mr Günter SCHIRMER, Head of the Secretariat of the Legal Affairs and Human Rights Department